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Photo: Twitter/Hideo Kojima

Konami may have banished Hideo Kojima and killed Silent Hills, but something may be taking shape from the ashes. Since his departure, Kojima has formed his own production company, Kojima Productions, and he may in fact be resurrecting Silent Hills in everything but name.

"I love working with Kojima-san. We are still in touch. We are still friends and working into doing something together, but that’s not going to be [Silent Hills]."

Now, Kojima has shared a photo of him and The Walking Dead actor Norman Reedus reuniting, Reedus being the mo-capped actor who was going to originally star in Kojima’s Silent Hills. It’s pretty easy to want to connect the dots here.

Photo: Konami

It’s clear Reedus, Del Toro and Kojima were really excited to work together on Silent Hills, and there’s seemingly nothing forbidding them from reuniting under the banner of Kojima Productions, provided they start from scratch.

The likely answer is a new horror IP that isn’t Silent Hills, yet retains the monster-creation of Del Toro, the monster-killing of Reedus and the brilliance/insanity of Kojima tying it all together.

Given how sour the relationship between Kojima and Konami was at the end, however, I would worry about Konami potentially going after Kojima all the same if he tried to start up a new horror project using the exact same collaborators as when he was working for them. Obviously there’s a way that Kojima could do this 100% legally with his own IP, but I don’t think anyone would put it past Konami to sue if even an modicum of the game resembled their Silent Hill IP.

Still, it’s an exciting thought that one of Kojima’s most anticipated projects could live on in a different form. Clearly he made an impression on these two men, and hopefully these are more than just casual reunions, and we end up getting a great game out of it.